As a non-user who just played with the podcast thing a while back, is notebooklm actually better than just using something like Claude Projects to dump all your files into it, and then chatting with it in that project?

Other than the podcast thing of course which is unique.

Mostly curious about perspectives of folks who used both and can compare them.

The podcasts feature is primarily why I love NLM!

I try starting my morning with learning, lately having a podcast to listen to while I start my day has been awesome.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. Now the I have Claude Code and Codex CLI I just creat a folder with all the documents I need and I work from there.